- Judges 10 Daily DEVO So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel. Judges 10:16 – What Israel did here is key in seeing the blessing of God come like God wants it to come within your life. They put away the foreign gods. The very things that they have been setting before God in their life they set aside and put God back where he belonged as the head. So if it’s your reputation, your talents, your fears, your money, or even your stuff that has become more important in your life to you than God, know God isn’t going to bless a life like He wants to bless it if He isn’t Lord of that life. Do whatever it is you need to do to make God Lord again in your story. He’s the only one that has the right, and ability, to hold that title properly in your story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 590
- After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. Judges 10:3-4 – Isn’t it great how Jair is remembered for all the ways he faithful led those under him. Remembered for all the people that he directed to God. Remembered for all the people he helped in distress. Remembered for all the ways he strove to follow God faithfully in his own story. That’s what it says about him….right? Nope, we just see he reigned for a couple decades and had thirty donkeys for his sons. That’s what his story in history amounts to. Is them the length of your reign and the flaunting of your worldly success all that’s is going to be said of you once your life is done? Or will the stories of how you poured into the lives of other be spoken? Will the way to followed Jesus be spoken about? Will the way you sacrificed for others be shared? Let’s think today about what will be said of us once our times is over on earth. Let’s make sure the words spoken about us are all about how closely our life mirrored the life of Jesus. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1793
- The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him. Judges 10:6 – Truly if you wanted a verse that sums up the entire book of Judges, this could easily be the verse. Seven times a verse like this appears in Judges. Over and over and over God would bring salvation for His people, and over and over and over they would again turn from God and serve the gods of neighboring lands around them. This sort of passage establishes a truth that people of God must acknowledge…we can find ourselves worshipping the gods of the world around us instead of the God who saved us. While likely I doubt you will convert to Islam or Buddhism to begin worshipping their gods, let us not discount the “gods” all around us. Money can be our god, a relationship can be our god, a sport can be our god, we can even become our god. These are things the world around us worships constantly and as followers of God we can find ourselves like the people in Judges worshipping what the world worships instead of the God who saved us. What I’d encourage you to do today is find space to pray and ask the Lord to reveal what you may be worshipping in your life beyond Him or even more than Him. What He reveals may be hard to accept and hard to make a change with, but remember who saved you and who is truly worthy of our worship. Choose this day to serve only the Lord and whatever else you may be worshipping, let those “gods” be put away for the Lord is the focus of your undivided devotion. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2866
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